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  • NBC
  • 1990
Working Girl

Summary Working Girl is another hit movie that failed as a tv series. The 1988 film starred Melanie Griffith in the title role, with Sigourney Weaver as her insufferable boss, but the tv series had to settle for more lesser known talent. Tess, the spunky, independent secretary portrayed here by newcomer "Sandra Bullock" who suddenly becomes a ju...

  • NBC
  • 1990
  • NBC
  • 1990
Working Girl
Season 1
Season Premiere: 1990
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
34
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Summary Working Girl is another hit movie that failed as a tv series. The 1988 film starred Melanie Griffith in the title role, with Sigourney Weaver as her insufferable boss, but the tv series had to settle for more lesser known talent. Tess, the spunky, independent secretary portrayed here by newcomer "Sandra Bullock" who suddenly becomes a ju...

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Episode 1 • Apr 16, 1990
Dream On
Having been denied the opportunity to vie for an executive position by her power-hungry boss, Tess McGill submits her own résumé under a male pseudonym.
Episode 2 • Apr 23, 1990
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Episode 3 • Apr 30, 1990
A Friend in Need
Episode 4 • May 7, 1990
McJoe's
Episode 5 • May 14, 1990
It's Only Love
Episode 6 • Jul 16, 1990
Hungry Heart
Tess's life long BFF, Lana, is getting married and Tess thinks she is settling because Lana feels all she can be is a house-wife.
Episode 7 • Jul 23, 1990
Just One of Those Things
Sal begins dating Tess's boss Bryn which brings up feelings Sal and Tess have been denying for years.
Episode 8 • Jul 30, 1990
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Tess is so busy trying to fit in with her new work friends that she forgets about her real friends. Meanwhile, Tess's mother becomes a pool shark.
Episode 9 • 1990
Get Back
Episode 10 • 1990
Two's a Crowd
Episode 11 • 1990
We Can Work It Out
Episode 12 • 1990
Oh, Brother

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
34
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33% Mixed
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67% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
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33% Mixed
3 Reviews
67% Negative
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50
May 4, 2014
More often than not, however, most of the laughs are junior too.
By Howard Rosenberg FULL REVIEW
50
May 4, 2014
What may be missing most in the TV mix is the supporting cast and behind-the-camera work that launched Griffith's acting rocket in the movie. [16 Apr 1990, p.C4]
By John Engstrom FULL REVIEW
30
May 4, 2014
Overlaying Working Girl is a subtle, cynical atmosphere of class snobbery...The writers' assumption seems to be that their viewers share their elitist values and viewpoint. [15 Apr 1990, p.TV-8]
By Robert P. Laurence FULL REVIEW
30
May 4, 2014
Bad enough that dark-haired Sandra Bullock lacks the fuzzy but tough quirkiness of Melanie Griffith's Tess. And that Nana Visitor's boss lady, a two-faced Yalie named Bryn, has none of the swagger and venomous sting of Sigourney Weaver's comic caricature...But to make matters worse, by the end of the opener these two now- conventional gals are more allies than adversaries. [16 Apr 1990, p.3D]
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
30
May 4, 2014
The writers try to limn the blue-collar vs. white-collar struggle that gave the movie its bite, but end up sounding mushy and sentimental. [16 Apr 1990, p.11]
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30
May 4, 2014
It's but an embryo of the real thing. [16 Apr 1990, p.C7]
By Rick Kogan FULL REVIEW
20
May 4, 2014
It wasn't much of a movie, but Griffith's dewy-eyed charm saved it. By sharp contrast, the TV version has precisely zero compensations, unless one hungers for further proof that NBC programmers are getting softer and softer in the noggin. [16 Apr 1990, p.B8]
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW

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